Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-01-21
THE NATION.

oy ffed lttrCCk Whlch was SET Tor the
10th inst. was continued until January n.
either state nor defense being ready.
The mortgage on Mrs Wittrock's house
In Leav enworth 20 raise which Fred Witt
rock says ne committed the robbery. has
been paid
Montana cattle men are alarmed. The
ranches are all overfed and the severe
weather will cause immense losses.
Suits aggregating $4,000 have been
brought at Springfield, Ohio, against the
c.. c.. G.. & X. X. and the Citizens
street railway by the three women injur-
ed by the street car collision with a freight
train last fall One Of the plaintiffs will
lose al arm
Mr.. Tarsney introduced bill in the
house the other day, which clearly sets
forth his views as 10 the disposition TO be
made OF the surplus revenue. This bill
provides for the erection of public build
ings in cities OF 10000 or over. IL the bill
should become n law more than dozen
stiles in Michigan would come under its
provisions.
True bills for manslaughtcr have been
found AZ New Orleans against the officers
OF the steamer NJ White. Tor causing
the death ot ~ persons when the steamer
was burned recently
Fort jackson. at the mo nth OF the Mis-
sissippi which cost s. 00O0O0 IL III danger
OF being undermined by a change ot river
bed.
The supreme court OF Massachusetts has
Just made a decision in the interest of the
travelling public in that sleeping car COM
4 g. 81
valuables
Il is proposed to pension the families OF
the men who lost their lives in defending
the Maine game law.
Prince Alexander OF Bulgaria is largely
Interested in the cattle business in New
Mexico
VIM NJ Stewart has been elected soma
tor from Nevada TO succeed Mr. Fair
1t is said that Mrs Logan will 60 to Chi
cago about the 18th of February TO attend
TO some business requiring her personal
supervision. and while there win decide
where her husbands remain, shall be per-
manentlv inferred She viii then publish
the Generals volume Of "reminiscences and
may take 10 literary work herself She is
in receipt Of offers from various publishers.
we're killed 10y a land slide on Sheep noun
tain, near Cooke City, Montana, the other
day
GOV Swineford Of Alaska is in Wash
ingtou on business concerning the terri
tory.
A Cinnamon at Cleelum Ore, blew two
OF his countrymen into fragments by plac-
ing a dynamite cartridge between them
while they we're asleep.
Gov Swineford Of Alaska, says that the
while population of Alaska has doubled in
the past eighteen months.
Miss Lucy Stanley of Evansville, Ind,
has been appointed queen Of the gypsies
OF the United State, 20 succeed her sister
who died near Jackson, Miss, recently.
The silk manufacturers Of New jersey
give employment 10 over 1900 persons
and the capital invested in the business
shows an increase during the past year Of
over 100000
a committee appointed by the citizens
of Vancouver b. c., waited upon a mum
Der Of Chinese recently arrived there, and
requested them 10 leave the city, which
they did
Late returns state that ~ persons per
lsbed IN the railroad disaster 81 Tiiiin OHIO
Hon John q Rogers chlrr justice OF the
circuit court Of Coos .ouoty. Illinois, l.
dead.
clam K. Jewatt prominent journalist
Of Bunrlo Is deai.
II has been discovered that a photographic
establishment has been printing bogus
Louisiana lottery tickets every month
since January, 1856. They did large bust
ness.
The Texas legislature viii vote for a
United States senator on the 18th inst.
San Francisco was rocked from east 20
west by earthquake at an early hour
the other morning.
A bin has been introduced i'm the Illinois
legislature providing for an appropriation
of $4,000 10 be applied toward the erection
OF monument to Gen. Logan in Chicago.
DR.. VIM. Perry, the oldest graduate Of
Harvard college, died in Exeter y H., on
the llth inst. lie was a graduate Of the
class Of ISL.
The mammoth boot and shoe factory Of
l. a. Beals in Boston was destroyed by fire
the other day. causing loss OF several
hundred thousand dollars
Jay Gould says that II the Interstate
commerce bill becomes law it will seri-
ously cripple the business Of the country.
An intimate friend Of Hon James G..
Blaine denies that the latter is going to
Europe 1t is understood that he will
make western trip soon and speak in De-
troit on February %, on the occasion OF
the celebration Of Washington's birthday
by the Detroit Republican Club.
Gov. Scales Of North Carolina. will not
order special election 60 fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation OF Representa-
tive Red Of that state who quits the pub
lie service with several blots on his char
scter
The Rev. Mr. Downs OF Boston, will get
bis salary from the church which expelled
him. The supreme court has decided that
ease in his favor, and he gets 81 800.
Fire broke out in the laboratory of Prof.
Bells house in Washington the other
morning, causing loss Of $4,000 The